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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Highlighting text (was: How get windows FIND() to work?)
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 02:15:17 +0200
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Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:

> On Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at 1:35:10 AM UTC-5, Thomas 'PointedEars'
> Lahn wrote:
>> Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
>> > On Monday, August 3, 2020 at 9:13:41 PM UTC-5, Robert Baer wrote:
>> >>     BUT. the keyword does NOT get underlined or highlighted in any
>> >>     way. It would be particularly nice if all the keywords got
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >>     highlighted and the first keyword was presented on the screen
          ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >>     (think loong document and keyword was in middle).
>> >> 
>> >>    Help?
>> > 
>> > Have you tried using the Selection API yet?
>> > 
>> > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection>
>> 
>> Yes.  It provides an interface to the selection *by the user*, so does
>> the opposite thing that was asked for.
> 
> Not only:
> 
> <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection/addRange>

OK, that can be useful in a different context.  But it is a far cry from 
what was being asked for here.

In fact, I found the implementation of all the approaches based on the 
document tree extremely tedious and error-prone, so I suggested the 
.innerHTML approach.

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